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enough deductions and loopholes that only affect high income individuals to avoid either raising the deficit or burdening the middle class. it's math, it's arithmetic. >> get the rates down, lower deductions and exemptions to create more jobs because there's nothing better for getting us to a balanced budget to have more people working, earning more money and paying taxes and that's by far the most effective and efficient way to get this budget balanced. >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. a big night in denver on wednesday, as president barack obama, and mitt romney met for the first presidential debate and the candidates sparred as you heard over taxes and the deficit as well as health care. wall street reform and the role of government. with mitt romney taking some sharp shots at the president's record these past four years. >> we're seeing right now is, in my view, a trickle down government approach which has government thinking it can do a better job than free people pursuing their dreams and that's not working the. proof of that is 23 million people out of
enough deductions and loopholes that only affect high income individuals to avoid either raising the deficit or burdening the middle class. it's math, it's arithmetic. >> get the rates down, lower deductions and exemptions to create more jobs because there's nothing better for getting us to a balanced budget to have more people working, earning more money and paying taxes and that's by far the most effective and efficient way to get this budget balanced. >> paul: welcome to the...
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if you look at that looming debt and deficit, as far as the eye can see, i think we all realize that in negotiated settlement is going to have to be reached. we have a spending problem in washington. we are cutting as much an even more bad, but at some point i think we are going to realize that the revenues are going to need to us match the -- to come up a bid to match -- neil: some revenues and taxes in that equation. >> of eliminating some of the loopholes and special interests were government is forging the behavior and punishing bad behavior, is that we want to do? no. i think we can simplify and make it fair. by that we would give greater revenues. >> it sounds like it does commission point of view. enough of us know we have to pony up and get over ourselves and so the big problems. neil: whenever you do or a lame-duck session does, we won't be here december 301st. >> is heavily hope not. i think that leads -- we already have uncertainty. this brings more. lack of faith. possible downgrade. i don't think we consummate that and i don't think we should. we at least but to next yea
if you look at that looming debt and deficit, as far as the eye can see, i think we all realize that in negotiated settlement is going to have to be reached. we have a spending problem in washington. we are cutting as much an even more bad, but at some point i think we are going to realize that the revenues are going to need to us match the -- to come up a bid to match -- neil: some revenues and taxes in that equation. >> of eliminating some of the loopholes and special interests were...
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he was talking about info on taxes and the deficit an didn't quite get it. i'm sure you feel the same way. >> i sure do. we spent too much time on foreign policy and not enough on jobs and fiscal responsibility. i think ryan won because vice president biden's demeanor was inappropriate in the first part of the debate. >> what do you mean? >> he laughed, interrupted too much. didn't think he was vice-presidential. i thought he got better in the second half and ryan had a stronger close. the truth is neither has a credible tax plan and romney-ryan better start providing specifics how they will pay for the rate cuts. you can do it because there's about $11 trillion worth of tax expenditures over 10 years and you have to eliminate half of them to pay for it. they haven't provided enough specifics and hurting their credibility. >> put a cap. >> whatever, you have to provide more specificity. >> let me ask david a question. he'll appreciate this. >> the point i want to make is romney last week put a cap on it. in fact, his cap -- original cap was $17,000, and even
he was talking about info on taxes and the deficit an didn't quite get it. i'm sure you feel the same way. >> i sure do. we spent too much time on foreign policy and not enough on jobs and fiscal responsibility. i think ryan won because vice president biden's demeanor was inappropriate in the first part of the debate. >> what do you mean? >> he laughed, interrupted too much. didn't think he was vice-presidential. i thought he got better in the second half and ryan had a...
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obama's four deficits are the four largest in us history. he's adding almost as much debt as all 43 previous presidents -- combined. and over 30 cents of every dollar obama spends is borrowed. much of it from countries like china. he's not just wasting money, he's borrowing it and then wasting it. we can't afford four more years. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message.
obama's four deficits are the four largest in us history. he's adding almost as much debt as all 43 previous presidents -- combined. and over 30 cents of every dollar obama spends is borrowed. much of it from countries like china. he's not just wasting money, he's borrowing it and then wasting it. we can't afford four more years. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message.
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that means the deficit would rise by $6.7 trillion. it's a good first step, but budget experts say that's still too high. mitt romney, meanwhile, has focused on the cuts. his economic plan, 55% of it cap spending at 20% gdp but his plan avoid cutting from defense. mitt romney says he would approve a balanced budget plan that only spends as much as it takes in, and he would also pursue entitlement reform. mitt romney's issues are taxes. romney's plan called for a 20% tax cut across the board. he said he would balance the loopholes and he said he would take care of the middle class family. but it's impossible to lower rates without taking money from low and middle income families. his plan would leave debt at 85% gdp by the end of the decade. we've been telling you also about the fiscal cliff. budget cuts will take place at the beginning of next year unless congress acts. president obama or president romney will need to worry about a rescisicessionrecession. they won't need to worry about a deficit. it would fall this year if we fell off
that means the deficit would rise by $6.7 trillion. it's a good first step, but budget experts say that's still too high. mitt romney, meanwhile, has focused on the cuts. his economic plan, 55% of it cap spending at 20% gdp but his plan avoid cutting from defense. mitt romney says he would approve a balanced budget plan that only spends as much as it takes in, and he would also pursue entitlement reform. mitt romney's issues are taxes. romney's plan called for a 20% tax cut across the board. he...
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. >> the four deficits are the four large zest u.s. history. he is adding as much debt -- >> the debt held by the public having increased by about 79% by upon. so when obama came to office, there was an officially projected deficit of $1.2 trillion. so he's not on the took for all of that. >> so, some good advice -- >> they blame to take the factual high ground and then go on to distort some of the facts. in our experience, any time a political campaign tells you they're giving you the facts, you're probably about to be bamboozled. >> special interest groups are spending big bucks trying to sway voters. it would pave the way for a casey know in prince georges county. that's on base to exceed candidate spending in the past two governor's races combined. there has also been big spending for question six that would uphold a state law. groups supporting and opposing that law have spend more than $4 million -- >> a coalition of religion groups are set to call on metro. the coalition that includes representatives from christian, jewish and muslim gro
. >> the four deficits are the four large zest u.s. history. he is adding as much debt -- >> the debt held by the public having increased by about 79% by upon. so when obama came to office, there was an officially projected deficit of $1.2 trillion. so he's not on the took for all of that. >> so, some good advice -- >> they blame to take the factual high ground and then go on to distort some of the facts. in our experience, any time a political campaign tells you they're...
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as far as the tax plan, look, he has said he will not pass a tax plan that is not deficit neutral. he's been very clear about this. his principles are do not change or modify the share of taxes paid at the upper income level, reduce the tax burden on the middle income level, cut rates across the board, particularly so you can create a more welcoming environment for small businesses, reduce the tax burden on small businesses, which are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of employment in this country, and you can do a lot of this by generating growth, getting rid of deductions, getting rid of a lot of the credits, getting rid of a lot of the loopholes and that is the plan he will put forward to congress. >> here's the thing. dan, here's the thing. nobody disputes that he intends to do some of this. what we don't know is how he intends to do it, and the specifics and until we get that, i think barack obama is perfectly entitled at the next two debates to take him on it, say hang on, you're cutting taxes by $5 trillion but what are you actually going to do to make up the $5
as far as the tax plan, look, he has said he will not pass a tax plan that is not deficit neutral. he's been very clear about this. his principles are do not change or modify the share of taxes paid at the upper income level, reduce the tax burden on the middle income level, cut rates across the board, particularly so you can create a more welcoming environment for small businesses, reduce the tax burden on small businesses, which are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of employment...
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the competitiveness deficit. and we need to recognize that there are many different kinds of deficits, of which the financial deficit is only one. spent i think that's a fantastic ending for your talk today. thank you so much, larry. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> look at what president obama did on the budget, nothing except the borrow and spend. and as result of the president's abdication of leadership, as a result of saying the most predictable economic crisis in our countries history and not fixing it, our credit rating was downgraded for the first time in our history. >> we laid out a $4 trillion debt reduction plan over the next 10 years. 4 trillion. we have already passed 1 trillion of it. ladies and gentlemen, these guys vote against everything. not only do they say they don't like a plan, i get that. you don't like our plan. what's your plan? >> tonight congressman paul ryan and vice president joe biden will face off in the only debate
the competitiveness deficit. and we need to recognize that there are many different kinds of deficits, of which the financial deficit is only one. spent i think that's a fantastic ending for your talk today. thank you so much, larry. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> look at what president obama did on the budget, nothing except the borrow and spend. and as result of the president's abdication of...
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mitt romney had that deficit. looks like mitt romney has done himself some good in that debate to close that gap. i think you will see the first ladies out there and it is better for the first lady to talk about the "sesame street" line and big bird than the president. you saw that ad out yesterday that many people called absurd. you saw raerp romney have that editorial today and basically saying big bird versus a small president. i think they will step back from having a president talk about big bird and have the first lady do it instead. >> okay. hogan, let's jump ahead to tomorrow night. appreciate sewer truly on for vice president joe biden to deliver the debate in kentucky, same quote. team baerm needs a strong performance from biden to make up for last week and change the subject. another bad outing by a member of the ticket and democratic hand wringing could turn into full-fledged panic. is the shoe on the other foot now with president obama being the underdog, team romney, was panicking? certainly before l
mitt romney had that deficit. looks like mitt romney has done himself some good in that debate to close that gap. i think you will see the first ladies out there and it is better for the first lady to talk about the "sesame street" line and big bird than the president. you saw that ad out yesterday that many people called absurd. you saw raerp romney have that editorial today and basically saying big bird versus a small president. i think they will step back from having a president...
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because according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class - or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here... how could we ever trust him here? >> throughout our battleground virginia special, we will take a groups offerent voters. >> we are breaking down voters by age, gender, and ethnicity. >> are political team includes cooper.uman and rebecca >> we have been inside both headquarters and the races this close. nodar kumaritashvili is taken for granted. they analyze every demographic no voter is taken for granted. whether it is making a pit stop or knocking back a:at a local watering hole, but tap into a very specific block of voters. >> it is still the second most important vote in america. >> second only to white females. is going tonow what sway me one way or another. mostly i am a democrat, but i made up my mind yet. successfult obama is young, women, hispanic, and black voters. 60%omney needs to get about of the white vote. possible? >> it is very possible. >> he says that is why romney almost to speak about days except the economy. >> many m
because according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class - or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here... how could we ever trust him here? >> throughout our battleground virginia special, we will take a groups offerent voters. >> we are breaking down voters by age, gender, and ethnicity. >> are political team includes cooper.uman and rebecca >> we have been inside both headquarters and the races this close. nodar kumaritashvili is...
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and the deficit gets with bigger and the deficit gets bigger. >> raise taxes and-- >> we've got, okay, adam. can you break this? what do you think? which side are you on here, a fiscal cliff, how do we address this, higher taxes, lower taxes? >> we won't have a sequester for more than a few days. i can see it happening, but it won't last very long. what we have to have higher taxes. >> no, come on. >> and we know that, we will. >> all right i tell you what-- >> you know what, we'll have double dip recession. >> we may be going there anyway. >> all right, i tell what you, guys, we may, to adam's point have it for a couple of days, but tell you charlie the only reason we will have it for a couple of days the markets would react if this things started. >> i agree. why would the markets react if you're going to do something-- >> got you there. >> and the same way it reacted last year when we talked about double dip recession. >> that was a default. >> and cut spending, charlie, the economy-- >> and everyone made great points, by the way, neil is not waiting around for lawmakers for this f
and the deficit gets with bigger and the deficit gets bigger. >> raise taxes and-- >> we've got, okay, adam. can you break this? what do you think? which side are you on here, a fiscal cliff, how do we address this, higher taxes, lower taxes? >> we won't have a sequester for more than a few days. i can see it happening, but it won't last very long. what we have to have higher taxes. >> no, come on. >> and we know that, we will. >> all right i tell you what--...
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deficits. they both have a ltle problem with details. but there is a big, i would strike a big contrast if i was mitt romney. i would put a working state on one side and a welfare state on the other side and i would say america would be much, much better if dollars were earned instead of dollars awarded. it is time to stop rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies and having the government treat every american the same, which is a foundational principal of the rule of law. and i think mitt romney has to do more of that. has he been specific with his plan? he laid five out in the debate, which is more than the president did. that's why independents thought mitt romney did very, very well. >> let me ask you about one of the issues where they differ, medicare. that is a big deal in florida romney says he supports vouchers for medicare, a plan that is not very popular. how does play in florida with all those seniors? >> right now in florida, you've got about 12 million registered voters. 36%
deficits. they both have a ltle problem with details. but there is a big, i would strike a big contrast if i was mitt romney. i would put a working state on one side and a welfare state on the other side and i would say america would be much, much better if dollars were earned instead of dollars awarded. it is time to stop rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies and having the government treat every american the same, which is a foundational principal of the rule of law. and i think...
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and we're in yemen and all these places and this is at a staggering cost which is causing the budget deficit we have a national security budget without one going to rouge trillion dollars. taking over the entire program and mentioning everything i want to mention so let me go to christopher's so everything's constructed consensus is already constructed before people vote this is essentially what bruce is saying. i totally disagree with bruce and with nicholas i think there's a huge choice a huge difference in the outcome of this election if romney wins if the republicans win the white house they will also probably keep the majority in the house and wins a majority in the senate and if the republicans control all the important political positions the white house the senate and see house then you will see a huge difference america has a huge dept more than sixteen billion dollars that is more than one hundred percent of g.d.p. and the next four years will be about who pays for that and i can tell you it will be a huge difference was obama controls the white house or mitt romney controls the wh
and we're in yemen and all these places and this is at a staggering cost which is causing the budget deficit we have a national security budget without one going to rouge trillion dollars. taking over the entire program and mentioning everything i want to mention so let me go to christopher's so everything's constructed consensus is already constructed before people vote this is essentially what bruce is saying. i totally disagree with bruce and with nicholas i think there's a huge choice a...
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that is a big problem but when you come to the question what are they willing to do to cut the deficit then for the republicans it's even worse they want to slash taxes for the rich and obama and the democrats want to raise taxes for the people who can really afford to pay a little bit more ok because of your last word before we go and before we go to break a hand gentlemen. well the fact is we don't know what obama would do a second term in the first term is very constrained to a large extent by getting elected in a second term and the other one people overlook is they see obama as a standard mainstream american that they grew up in hawaii in a very different culture we don't know what barack obama really expects that is quite possible that he's a populist on the scale ok gentlemen we have to go to a short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on the us political system state. and. secret laboratory. to build the world's most sophisticated robots which unfortunately doesn't do anything. to teach the creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you
that is a big problem but when you come to the question what are they willing to do to cut the deficit then for the republicans it's even worse they want to slash taxes for the rich and obama and the democrats want to raise taxes for the people who can really afford to pay a little bit more ok because of your last word before we go and before we go to break a hand gentlemen. well the fact is we don't know what obama would do a second term in the first term is very constrained to a large extent...
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i got to ask why it was when he called the massive deficit we have unamerican, why, when that was the case, he spent $90 billion sending money to green energy companies, many of blum wrote by friends of his, contributors of is, and we heard what he had to say or not say. i think we boil it down to this. he said more recently, look, you cannot change washington from the inside. you have to change it from the onset. we will give him that chance. [cheers and applause] now, there were couple of places where we agreed. we agreed that we would take this country in very different directions. he points out that, actually, it was the vice president a part of the truth, they're planning on raising taxes by $1 trillion, more like $2 trillion with obamacare taxes, but the spending and the interest on the debt they amassed by virtue of their spending will do what one recent study shows, causing them to raise taxes on the middle class. i make this commitment to you. under no circumstances will i raise taxes on the middle class of america. [cheers and applause] under his watch, we will have obamacar
i got to ask why it was when he called the massive deficit we have unamerican, why, when that was the case, he spent $90 billion sending money to green energy companies, many of blum wrote by friends of his, contributors of is, and we heard what he had to say or not say. i think we boil it down to this. he said more recently, look, you cannot change washington from the inside. you have to change it from the onset. we will give him that chance. [cheers and applause] now, there were couple of...
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we're hearing about the book "the young guns" written by ryan and his colleagues outlining his deficit and debt policies. biden has been on the trail talking about it this book and these policies. these are attacks he's been honing over the last couple weeks and months. really what you see is biden addressing things like social security and medicare. these are arguments he's making on the stump now, but his staff and van holland right now are preparing him to respond to have a back and forth with ryan on those issues. >> carrie, thank you very much for the report there. the battle for the buckeye state. president obama is headed to ohio from san fran. he will speak at a rally later this afternoon at ohio state university. after a rally in iowa in just the past hour, mitt romney headed to ohio as well and will spend four of the next five days there. he's trying to capitalize on the new dynamic of the presidential race following last weengk's debalt. it was like yesterday we were talking about whether governor romney was going to pull up his stakes in ohio and try to focus on a different
we're hearing about the book "the young guns" written by ryan and his colleagues outlining his deficit and debt policies. biden has been on the trail talking about it this book and these policies. these are attacks he's been honing over the last couple weeks and months. really what you see is biden addressing things like social security and medicare. these are arguments he's making on the stump now, but his staff and van holland right now are preparing him to respond to have a back...
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. >> obama's four deficits are the four largest in history. >> reporter: with the debate performance showing up in the polls, it's putting more importance on the next two debates to come and looking ahead to tonight, both president obama and mitt romney are campaigning in ohio this evening. the president in columbus across the state, mitt romney near youngstown, one in the state and he will be joined by new jersey governor chris christy. >>> you heard it there and that is probably one of the most quoted clips. >> mitt romney sharing his desire to cut funding for pbs and its beloved character, big bird, of course. the obama campaign is out with a new tv ad going out with the line. >> gluttons of greed and the even genius who towered over them. one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird, big third, big bird. >> it's me, big bird. >> big, yellow, a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it's not wall street you have to worry about, it'ses is me street. >> i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. >> reporter: mitt romney taking on the enemies no matter what is next. >> and theysh
. >> obama's four deficits are the four largest in history. >> reporter: with the debate performance showing up in the polls, it's putting more importance on the next two debates to come and looking ahead to tonight, both president obama and mitt romney are campaigning in ohio this evening. the president in columbus across the state, mitt romney near youngstown, one in the state and he will be joined by new jersey governor chris christy. >>> you heard it there and that is...
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because according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class - or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here... how could we ever trust him here? >>> mitt romney is trying to close the gender gap before the election, but meryl streep is trying to stop him. and mitt romney is now afraid of answering questions from kids. the kids on nickelodeon. something that john mccain and barack obama did. why is mitt so afraid of the kids? with the spark cash card from capital one, sven's home security gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! how does this thing work? oh, i like it! [ garth ] sven's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! woo-hoo!!! so that's ten security gators, right? put them on my spark card! why settle for less? testing hot tar... great businesses deserve the most rewards! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day! what's in your wallet? here's your invoice. starts with arthritis pain and a choice.
because according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class - or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here... how could we ever trust him here? >>> mitt romney is trying to close the gender gap before the election, but meryl streep is trying to stop him. and mitt romney is now afraid of answering questions from kids. the kids on nickelodeon. something that john mccain and barack obama did. why is mitt so afraid of the kids? with the spark cash card...
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finally let's take a look at the deficit. romney is planning to cut a lot more than funding to big bird and pbs. his plans include repealing obama care, reducing foreign aide and privatizing amtrak. you may notny that's that big of a deal. i use it all the time. romney says privatizing it will save $1.3 billion. the budget is made up a lot of small things. however he does it, his goal is to reduce government spending to 20% of gdp. gdp is the biggest measure of everything we produce in society. he wants to do that by the end 6 his first term. right now government spending is at 25% of gdp. let's shed some more light on what romney's america would look like. kevin hassette is an economic adviser for mitt romney. stevon moore is an editorial writer for "the wall street journal." my good friend christine romans is the host of "your botto line" right here on cnn. folks, no party or ideological spin today, no using the name obama or the term democrat. pain the me a picture of what the world looks like under romney four years from
finally let's take a look at the deficit. romney is planning to cut a lot more than funding to big bird and pbs. his plans include repealing obama care, reducing foreign aide and privatizing amtrak. you may notny that's that big of a deal. i use it all the time. romney says privatizing it will save $1.3 billion. the budget is made up a lot of small things. however he does it, his goal is to reduce government spending to 20% of gdp. gdp is the biggest measure of everything we produce in society....
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because according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class - or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here... how could we ever trust him here? >> attorney for -- attorneys for jerry sandusky met with the judge today. two hearings are planned for tomorrow. the first is to determine if he is of violent sexual predator and the second is to determine his sentencing. he faces life in prison. we will be live with his sentencing on abc7 news at 5:00. the man long suspected in the death of natalie holloway, a dutch newspaper reports that he has impregnated a woman despite being in prison in peru. he told the newspaper the pregnancy came after an unsupervised visit with the woman. >> 3 people behind bars after chaos broke out in a hotel in downtown philadelphia. we will show you some video. a brawl broke out between two separate wedding parties. and man, apparently the uncle of one of the bride's, had a heart attack a dot -- hard attack and died. >> there was 75 to 100 people. they started shoving each other. >> that video is the main piece of evidence in
because according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class - or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here... how could we ever trust him here? >> attorney for -- attorneys for jerry sandusky met with the judge today. two hearings are planned for tomorrow. the first is to determine if he is of violent sexual predator and the second is to determine his sentencing. he faces life in prison. we will be live with his sentencing on abc7 news at 5:00. the man...
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trillion, you're not going to tell us one loophole you'd close, you're not going to run up the deficit or taxes on the middle class. >> very quickly -- >> no, no. it goes back to bill clinton. >> there was a story out yesterday that that claim is fiction because you don't count the loophole closing. >> what loophole? >> he talked about mortgage interest. really quickly -- >> mortgage interest? >> he has never talked about mortgage interest. >> the hilarity that there is one -- >> we have one loophole. >> mike, finish, but then i want to get on to something else. >> the president says he wants to lower tax cuts to big corporations. how to pay for it? loopholes. what loopholes? nothing. we'll tell you after the election. you're attacking romney for the same thing. >> i want to talk about the gas prices. one thing that was striking, speaker gingrich, is what some were arguing about the actual numbers. jack welch made a lot of headlines with a tweet that said, unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't debate so they change the numbers without any substantiation.
trillion, you're not going to tell us one loophole you'd close, you're not going to run up the deficit or taxes on the middle class. >> very quickly -- >> no, no. it goes back to bill clinton. >> there was a story out yesterday that that claim is fiction because you don't count the loophole closing. >> what loophole? >> he talked about mortgage interest. really quickly -- >> mortgage interest? >> he has never talked about mortgage interest. >> the...
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is protected it confirms that we've had trillion dollar deficits the last four years should we trust the cvo numbers now it's like they conveniently pick and choose there doesn't need to the job truth is they don't exist i agree with s.e. i mean politico optically this looks good politically for the president's below eight percent it kind of takes it disarms a republican to say forty four straight months of unemployment above eight percent but really the numbers still suck i mean you've got your six which is still about fourteen percent these are all the wage jobs but this isn't because of barack obama i mean this is going to be there and don't forget also you know you think that this just suddenly happen from poor years that we're in this collapsing economy that there's no jobs through there is on this panel right now it's disingenuous to say that these job numbers are so disasters of the over that the president cooked the books on these the job numbers are fairly clear but the thing is is that if you look at obama's mindset between two thousand and eight obama and two thousand and
is protected it confirms that we've had trillion dollar deficits the last four years should we trust the cvo numbers now it's like they conveniently pick and choose there doesn't need to the job truth is they don't exist i agree with s.e. i mean politico optically this looks good politically for the president's below eight percent it kind of takes it disarms a republican to say forty four straight months of unemployment above eight percent but really the numbers still suck i mean you've got...
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because according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class - or increase the deficit to pay ior it. if we can't trt t him here... how could we ever trust him here?
because according to experts, he'd have to raise taxes on the middle class - or increase the deficit to pay ior it. if we can't trt t him here... how could we ever trust him here?
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me has to sock it to the middle class or explode the deficit. > deficit. >> reporter: what you're saying it it is unrealistic-- >> i'm saying it's impossible, not unrealistic. >> when president obama said in 2008 i'm going to cut the deficit in half, i'm going to close guilt me, people-- gitmo, people said-- did not sigh he was not telling the truth. >> closing gitmo involved congress and he couldn't get them to do that. the math, people over $200,000, and you still have a trillions of dollars hole, and he hasn't named the deductions he would close. this is a shell game, john. whichever shell you pick up, the middle class loses. the economy will lose, and i think that this is going to catch up with him. >> schieffer: what did the president think of his performance? >> i think the president understands-- you know, the president is his harshest critic, and without getting into detail, i think you can assume he has reviewed the tape and it will inform how he handles these subsequent debates. >> schieffer: do you think he was ill prepared. some are saying it was the people who prepared him.
me has to sock it to the middle class or explode the deficit. > deficit. >> reporter: what you're saying it it is unrealistic-- >> i'm saying it's impossible, not unrealistic. >> when president obama said in 2008 i'm going to cut the deficit in half, i'm going to close guilt me, people-- gitmo, people said-- did not sigh he was not telling the truth. >> closing gitmo involved congress and he couldn't get them to do that. the math, people over $200,000, and you still...
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any path forward on tax reform that promises to cut rates will either end up failing to reduce the deficit, or failing to protect the middle class from a net tax increase. >> eliot: senator schumer suggested allowing the rates to return to the prebush rate. of course republicans were quick to pounce on shumers new approach be old attacks. mitch mcconnell said, and i quote . . . for more on the mayhem in washington i'm joined by one of your favorites bernie sanders,ent senator of vermont. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> my pleasure. >> eliot: is chuck schumer right that we could challenge the premise that rates at the top should come down. >> of course schumer is right. what the republicans want to do and some democrats is lower the tax rates for the wealthiest people in this country at a time right now, when the effect of what the wealthiest people actually pay is the lowest in decades. and even if you manage to close some loopholes you will become neutral -- you are not going to bring in any more revenue to help us deal with the deficit. shumer is right in saying we have to k
any path forward on tax reform that promises to cut rates will either end up failing to reduce the deficit, or failing to protect the middle class from a net tax increase. >> eliot: senator schumer suggested allowing the rates to return to the prebush rate. of course republicans were quick to pounce on shumers new approach be old attacks. mitch mcconnell said, and i quote . . . for more on the mayhem in washington i'm joined by one of your favorites bernie sanders,ent senator of vermont....
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flip-floper and then it was about big bird and he wasn't serious, this was an attempt to go after the deficit, he wasn't serious; whereas, they spent most of the campaign arguing that ryan and romney were radical, they wanted to overturn medicare, redo medicare. they just can't find their footing on solid argument so they are going back to the arguement that romney is a liar. the media amplified it. but it's not convincing argument when you have 70 million people watching what romney said. >> bret: they tried to jump on the statement that he made and romney saying there is no legislation with regard to abortion that i'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda. suggesting that he is trying to moderate on abortion. the romney spokeswoman saying that romney is proudly pro-life and pro-life president. romney saying it won't happen. >> there is nothing there. what romney is saying is i have an agenda on abortion. i will make legislation. there is no contradiction. if you look at the polls and 16-point flip among independents, toward romney, you've got to say as opposed to mara said not a
flip-floper and then it was about big bird and he wasn't serious, this was an attempt to go after the deficit, he wasn't serious; whereas, they spent most of the campaign arguing that ryan and romney were radical, they wanted to overturn medicare, redo medicare. they just can't find their footing on solid argument so they are going back to the arguement that romney is a liar. the media amplified it. but it's not convincing argument when you have 70 million people watching what romney said....